It’s not only our muscles that get tired during intense exercise; our brains also experience fatigue, which inhibits our performance. And athletes aren’t the only ones who experience it.
Fatigue is also a common and often debilitating symptom in many diseases. For example, a third of cancer survivors still experience fatigue even months or years after the end of treatment.
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Join researcher Guillaume Millet for this webinar to hear key insights from his studies on both exercise-related and chronic fatigue. Learn about the factors that contribute to fatigue and how strategies like regular exercise can actually help alleviate it.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Guillaume Millet is a professor at the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Kinesiology. He also heads the Neuromuscular Fatigue Lab within the Faculty’s Human Performance Laboratory. His research interests lie in the areas of exercise physiology, neuromuscular function and fatigue.
DATE AND TIME
Our brains and fatigue
Recorded on October 4, 2016
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